This first run was based on the raw images with no filter processing and the colors, while nice, were not quite as bold as I had remembered. The first run of prints for this image were very popular, and sold in canvas prints ranging up to 10' wide.
This was a real learning process and took months before I felt like I had something that looked good. I started to experiment with using photoshop layer masks to bring out the layer I wanted to use in each part of the picture. While the stitching software offered some strong HDR processing, I never liked the way the final product looked. Photoshop Post ProcessingĪfter spending a good bit of time manually matching individual pictures back into the panoramic to fix the "dip" in the horizon I started to work on the HDR process.
I eventually gave up on getting a perfect stitch and addressed the distorted horizon manually in photoshop. The process became very protracted, and getting all the layers to line up properly proved a bit challenging. The majority of the picture was stitching just fine, but the stretch of horizon that did not have anything but those beautiful hues lacked any real edges for the stitching software to use as alignment points.
#Panotour pro control points full#
My computer at that time took over four hours to do initial control point identification, and a full stitch was running about ten hours. I believe he was probably as excited about what was to come as I was apprehensive. Igor who had been so wonderful in helping me find the location, was very persistent in asking about when the picture would be ready.
It would be two weeks before I was back in front of my computer and could begin the stitching process, which turned out to be the first of many delays in working on this print. This was one of my first attempts at using exposure bracketing, and on the bus back to Santiago, looking through the images on the camera, I knew I had something special. August - October 2012 Post Processing phase 1
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